Professor Kenneth Baldwin

Deputy Director, Research School of Physics and Engineering; and Director, ANU Energy Change Institute

Professor Ken Baldwin is a laser physicist based at the Australian National University, where he is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Director of the ANU Energy Change Institute, and Deputy-Director of the Research School of Physics and Engineering.

Professor Baldwin is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, The Institue of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He is a past-President of the Australian Optical Society, and is the first Australian to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America. In 2007, Professor Baldwin was awarded the W.H. Beattie Steel Medal, the highest honour of the Australian Optical Society, and in 2010 he was awarded the Barry Inglis Medal by the National Measurement Institute for excellence in precision measurement.

Professor Baldwin is also a past-President of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS). In 2004 he won the Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science, for his role in initiating and championing “Science meets Parliament”.

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Ian Fry

International Environmental Law and Policy Expert

Ian Fry is an international environmental law and policy expert. His focus is primarily on the mitigation policies associated with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related agreements. He actively participates in climate change negotiations as a member of the delegation of the Government of Tuvalu. He also participates in other international environment fora, including the Convention on Biological Diversity. His particular interest relates to land use change and forestry issues with the Kyoto Protocol and the interface between science and policy making.

Ian Fry works as the International Environmental Officer for the Environment Department of the Government of Tuvalu. He has held this position for over twelve years and has represented the Tuvalu Government in numerous international fora including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Commission for Sustainable Development, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, and United Nations General Assembly. Ian is the spokesperson for the Alliance of Small Island States on matters relating to land use, land use change and forestry and more generally on issues relating to mitigation in the consideration of future climate change regimes. He has held the position of Vice-Chair of the Facilitative Branch of the Compliance Committee under the Kyoto Protocol.

Ian also undertakes consultancy work primarily associated with negotiations training in the context of multilateral environmental agreements. His work focuses on building the capacity of government representatives from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States. He has facilitated negotiations training workshops in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Nepal, Samoa, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Tuvalu, Vietnam as well as special pre-Conference of Party workshops for LDCs in Canada, Italy, Indonesia, Kenya and Thailand. This work is carried out in association with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (UK), the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, WWF Pacific and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.

Prior to working for the Tuvalu Government, Ian was a writer for Earth Negotiations Bulletin. He has been a long term member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and is the current Pacific Regional representative to the United Nations for the International Council on Environmental Law. He is currently undertaking a part-time doctorate through the Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU) looking at land use change and forestry issues under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol.

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Professor Stephen Howes

Director, Development Policy Centre; Director, International and Development Economics Professor of Economics

Prior to joining the Crawford School in 2009, Stephen was Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development. He worked from 1994 to 2005 at the World Bank, first in Washington and then in Delhi, where he was Lead Economist for India. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Review on Climate Change, where he managed the Review's international work stream.

Stephen serves as a Board Member for CARE Australia. He has previously served on the Board of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy, and on the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute. He is the Director of the Development Policy Centre, as well as the International and Development Economics teaching program at the Crawford School.

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Associate Professor Janette Lindesay

Professor of Climatology

Associate Professor Janette Lindesay's principal research interests are in climate variability during the period of instrumental record, and climate change science in relation to vulnerability and adaptation. Her current research focuses on integrating multiple influences on low-frequency fluctuations in Australian rainfall, including the potential for deterministic and dynamical seasonal forecasting; climatological aspects of bushfires and drought in Australia; temperature and rainfall trends and extremes; and climate change adaptation. She is also engaged in research into the pedagogy of climate change in academic and professional education.

Janette obtained her Honours degree in Geography, Postgraduate Teaching Diploma and Doctorate in statistical and dynamical climatology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and has also worked in academic and research organisations in South Africa, the UK and Australia. She has chaired the Atmosphere Reference Group for the ACT Region State of the Environment Report, and is a former President of the Canberra branch of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. In addition to convening and teaching academic and professional programs and courses in climate science and climate change science and policy at the ANU, Janette teaches by invitation at the United Nations University in Tokyo, is a member of a number of professional meteorological societies, and is on the editorial boards of two international journals.

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Alex Wyatt

Founder, Climate Bridge

Alex Wyatt co-founded Climate Bridge in the living room of his Shanghai apartment in 2006, and as CEO, grew the company into a multi-national enterprise which became one of the world's leading players in the international carbon markets. By 2013, Climate Bridge had a portfolio of more than 160 clean energy projects across China spanning a wide range of technologies including hydro-electricity, wind, biomass, solar, biogas, waste heat capture and other forms of energy efficiency. Taken together, Climate Bridge's projects comprise more than 2 GW of clean energy infrastructure and reduce so many emissions that they essentially make the whole country of Mongolia carbon neutral every year. In 2013, Alex sold the Climate Bridge business to an Asian consortium, and now spends his time as a Board Member of a number of different environmental business companies, as the Deputy Chair of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee in Victoria, and on a range of non-profit activities, most notably in the education and disability sectors in Australia.

Prior to founding Climate Bridge, Alex spent a number of years in the Shanghai office of McKinsey & Company, where he worked with both state-owned and multinational enterprises all over China. He is also an expert on the Chinese transportation sector, having undertaken a number of different projects to help optimise rail, sea and trucking networks throughout the country. From 2008-09, Alex was also a member of the Advisory Board of GECKO, an environmental education NGO based in Shanghai, and was a lead fundraiser for the Shenyang Children's Village in Liaoning Province, China, from 2002-04. Prior to moving to China, Alex was an overseas professional cricket player for Cranleigh Cricket Club in the UK (1998) and was a 1st grade cricketer in the Victorian Premier League from 1997-2000.

Alex was recently appointed by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders, and in 2009, was named in the "Advance Asia 50" as one of the fifty most influential Australians living in Asia. Alex was educated at Melbourne University (B.Sc, LLB) and Oxford University (M.Phil, MBA), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

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Josh Frydenberg MP

Federal Member for Kooyong

Josh Frydenberg is a Federal Member for Kooyong, from the Liberal Party of Australia. He did his tertiary studies at Monash University where he undertook Law and Economics degrees, graduating with Honours in both. Frydenberg holds a Master of Philosophy degree in International Relations from Oxford University (where he was awarded a scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom) and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Upon returning to Australia, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Frydenberg later served as an assistant adviser to Attorney General Daryl Williams OC, adviser and then senior adviser to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, and finally, senior adviser to Prime Minister John Howard. Frydenberg hes written a number of editorials for leading publications including the The Age, The Herald Sun, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.

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Andrew Leigh MP

Federal Member for Fraser

Prior to being elected in 2010 as the federal member for Fraser, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University.

Andrew has written extensively on a range of subjects, including education, taxation and social policy. He also writes regularly for the Australian press.

Andrew holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Law and Arts. He has previously worked as a lawyer (including a stint as associate to former High Court Justice Michael Kirby), and as a principal adviser to the Australian Treasury.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, the only parliamentarian to be a fellow of one of the four national academies. In 2011, he received the 'Young Economist Award', a prize given every two years by the Economics Society of Australia to the best Australian economist under 40.

Andrew has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1991.

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Lesley Alway

Director, Arts, Asialink

Lesley Alway is an arts manager with experience in cultural organisations in the government, non-profit and private sectors. Between 2008-2010, Lesley was the Managing Director of Sotheby's Australia. Her previous roles include Director / CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, Director of Arts Victoria and Director of Artbank based in Sydney. Lesley's academic qualifications include a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and BEd from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA from Monash University.

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Michell Guo

Business Development and Client Manager, HASSELL

Born in Beijing, raised in Melbourne and educated at both The University of Melbourne and Tsinghua University, Michell Guo is a registered architect in Australia. After spending eight years working in Melbourne with one of Australia's largest multi-disciplinary design studios - HASSELL, Michell has recently moved back to China into a Business Development and Client Manager role for HASSELL's Beijing Studio.

Michell is bilingual and bi-cultural, her mixed background and experience gives her an innate ability to bridge between cultures; her in-depth understanding and sensitivity to both the eastern and western cultures often brings valuable insights to company and clients, making her an important link in many liaisons.

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Paul LACY

Co-Founder & CEO, kikki.K

As Co-founder and CEO of international Swedish design retailer kikki.K, Paul along with his Swedish born partner Kristina Karlsson has led the rapid growth and success since its start-up – from zero to 80 stores across Australia, New Zealand & Singapore, now employing a Team of over 600 people, selling online to over 74 countries and expanding globally.

For anyone unfamiliar, kikki.K is a multi-award winning boutique retail stationery & design concept presenting a Swedish-designed range of contemporary home & stationery products & unique gifts. The business has grown at a phenomenal rate in its first 12 years and was recently nominated for the Innovation Award in the Oracle World Retail Awards.

Paul has driven the development of kikki.K from a simple idea they had to its current position as a successful and growing international retailer, but according to Paul, his most successful achievement has been having the courage to 'sell the house' and follow a dream...

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Graeme LEWSEY

CEO of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

In May 2011, the Melbourne Fashion Festival appointed Graeme Lewsey to the newly created role of Chief Executive Officer. Graeme led the Festival and its world class team to new heights achieving outstanding results for the 2012 and 2013 Festivals.

Graeme is a proud Melburnian and after graduating from his BA at RMIT University he was awarded ‘Australian Young Designer of The Year’ by Woolmark which was followed by a decade of work with leading fashion brands and marketing agencies overseas.

Returning to Australia in 1997, Graeme was involved in the development of ‘Australian Fashion Week’ and subsequently joined the global team at IMG as a Senior Executive for the Asia Pacific region and was instrumental in the establishment of a range of events including the ‘Singapore Fashion Festival’, ‘Hong Kong Luxury Week’ and the ‘Sydney Fashion Festival’.

Graeme brings unparalleled event management, marketing and international industry experience to the Festival and his appointment has further enhanced the success of the Melbourne Fashion Festival and complements its high profile Board of Directors.

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Patrick SKENE

Patrick Skene has over 10 years’ experience in multicultural community sport engagement and is the Director of Sport and Media for Red Elephant Projects (www.redelephantprojects.com; @redelephantaus), a specialist consultancy involved in research, community engagement, media, marketing and participation and fan development program with a focus on multicultural and indigenous communities.

Red Elephant Projects has worked extensively on Asian Community sports programs from elite team inbound and outbound tours to working with Asian Australian sport organisations to strengthen community and deliver social outcomes through sport participation.

Red Elephant Projects are the community engagement advisors for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 Communities program and have worked with most major national sporting organisations including Football Federation Australia, the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League, Basketball Australia, Cricket Australia and Netball Victoria.

Patrick’s areas of expertise include research, strategy, program design, media, community engagement, fundraising and program sustainability.

Patrick has a Bachelor of Applied Science from University of Technology, Sydney.

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Professor Emeritus Paul Dibb AO

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies; and Chairman, ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor of strategic studies and Chairman of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He was head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre from 1991 to 2003. His previous positions include: Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defence, Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, and Head of the National Assessments Staff (National Intelligence Committee).

He is the author of 5 books and 4 reports to government, as well as more than 120 academic articles and monographs about the global strategic outlook, the security of the Asia-Pacific region, the US alliance, and Australia’s defence policy. He wrote the 1986 Review of Australia’s Defence Capabilities (the Dibb Report) and was the primary author of the 1987 Defence White Paper. He also published a book in 1986, which was reprinted in 1987 and had a second edition in 1988, entitled The Soviet Union: the Incomplete Superpower (London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies).

At the request of the Foreign Minister, he has represented Australia at six meetings of the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group between 2006 and 2012 with the most recent one being in Bangkok in February 2012. Under the Howard Government, he was a member of the Foreign Minister’s Foreign Policy Council for 9 years.

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Michael Shoebridge

First Assistant Secretary Strategic Policy, Department of Defence

Michael Shoebridge has been First Assistant Secretary Strategic Policy since May 2011. Previously to this he was the First Assistant Secretary Defence, Intelligence and Research Coordination in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Prior to this he was Deputy Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, and he was the Counsellor Defence Policy at the Australian Embassy in Washington. He has experience across a range of policy areas within the Australian Government, within the Department of Defence, the Department of Finance and Administration and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He has worked in two Australian Commonwealth Ministers’ offices and also on secondment with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence.

Mr Shoebridge has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney and also a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Technology in Sydney. He joined the Department of Defence as a Graduate.

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Professor Michael Wesley

Professor of National Security, Australian National University

Michael Wesley is Professor of National Security at the Australian National University. His career has spanned academia, with previous appointments at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, the University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University and the University of Sydney; government, where he worked as Assistant Director General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments; and think tanks, in which he was Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Professor Wesley has also served as the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, a Trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery and a Board Member of the Australia Television Network. He is a Non-Executive Member of the Senior Leadership Group of the Australian Federal Police. His most recent book, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia, won the 2011 John Button Prize for the best writing on Australian public policy.

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Dr YOU Ji

Associate Professor, UNSW School of Social Sciences and International Studies

You Ji is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. You Ji’s research interests include China's political and economic reform, elite politics, and military modernisation and foreign policy. His current projects focus on military transformation and issues in post-Cold War foreign policy and security matters.

Research Areas

Chinese politics and government, China’s economic reform and development, international relations with emphasis on Asia/Pacific, China's civil/military relations and PLA transformation, China's changing state/society relations and defence and security studies in Asia/Pacific

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Dr Amy King (Facilitator)

Lecturer, ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Dr Amy King is a lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. She received her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she was an Australian Rhodes Scholar. Her research focuses on Sino-Japanese relations; the economic-security nexus; and the legacy of war, imperialism and late industrialisation in Asia. Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours in International Studies) and a Bachelor of International Business from the University of South Australia, and an M.Phil in Modern Chinese Studies (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. She has also studied at Peking University in China, and Okayama University in Japan, and was a delegate at the inaugural Australia-China Youth Dialogue in 2010. Prior to coming to the ANU, Amy taught at the University of Oxford and University of South Australia, and worked as a research analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

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Professor Peter Drysdale

Emeritus Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU

Peter Drysdale is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He is widely acknowledged as the leading intellectual architect of APEC. He was founding head of the Australia-Japan Research Centre and is known for his work on East Asian and Pacific economic cooperation and the East Asian economies. He is the author of a large number of books and papers on international and resources trade, foreign investment and economic policy in East Asia and the Pacific, including International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific. He is recipient of the Asia Pacific Prize, the Weary Dunlop Award, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, the Australian Centenary Medal and he is a Member of the Order of Australia, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters, from the Australian National University. He is presently Head of East Asia Forum (www.eastasiaforum.org), the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) (www.eaber.org) and the South Asia Bureau of Economic Research (SABER) (www.saber.eaber.org). In 2011-12, he served on the Advisory and Cabinet Committee of the Australian Government's White Paper on Australia’s in the Asian Century and is currently a member of the Strategic Advisory Board for implementation of the White Paper.

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Colin Heseltine

Director, Sino Gas and Energy Holdings

Colin Heseltine had a forty year career with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1969-2008), which included many postings in the Asian region and senior policy advisory positions in Australia.

In 2006 he was appointed by the Australian Government to head the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore during Australia’s host APEC year in 2007.

He served as Australian ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2001-2005, deputy head of mission in the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1982-85 and 1988-1992, and director of the Australian Commerce and Industry Office in Taiwan from 1992-1997. He has also had diplomatic appointments in Chile (1970-1973) and Spain (1975-78).

From 1998-2001 he was First Assistant Secretary, North Asia Division, Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra.

Since leaving the Australian Government in July 2008, he has provided consultancy services to business organizations and is currently a non-executive board director of Sino Gas and Energy Holdings, an Australian company developing gas assets in China. He is a senior associate with the Nautilus Institute, a public policy think-tank which focuses on energy and sustainability issues in the Korean peninsula, and is vice chairman of the Australia Korea Business Council. He is also Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University (Melbourne).

He has a Bachelor of Economics with honours from Monash University. He is married with two daughters.

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QIAN Jingmin

Director, Jing Meridan

Jingmin is a company director and investment management advisor with expertise on international business management, and highly experienced in resources, infrastructure and property sectors in Australia and Asia. Her consultancy, Jing Meridian, provides advisory services to directors and senior management.

Previously she spent over a decade in executive roles with L.E.K. consulting, Boral Ltd and Leighton Holdings, focusing on strategy, investment, mergers and acquisitions, and human resources planning in Australia and Asia. During this period, Jingmin was actively involved in acquisition projects and the expansion of Boral’s Asian plasterboard business in eight countries. Whilst working at Leighton Holdings, Jingmin was responsible for strategy research and scenario planning of the Group’s markets, especially Asia and its impacts on Australia. Prior to that, Jingmin started her career with Ministry of Commerce in Beijing, working with AusAID and UN on foreign development programs in over twenty provinces in China. Recently, Jingmin has co-written a paper “A long march: The Australia-China investment relationship”, which explores trends, policies and lessons of the Chinese investment in Australia and Australian investment in China.

Jingmin is a non-executive director of Golden Cross Resources and CFA Society of Sydney, an advisory committee member of Loscam Australia and Macquarie University’s Department of Marketing and Management, and an Executive Committee of the Australia China Business Council NSW.

Jingmin holds a Bachelor Degree of Economics from University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and an MBA from AGSM in Sydney. Jingmin is a CFA Charterholder and a fellow of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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Laurie Smith

Executive Director, International Operations, Austrade

In his role as Austrade’s Executive Director, International Operations, Laurie Smith is responsible for a network of offices in over 50 countries that assists Australian companies to grow their international business, attracts productive foreign direct investment into Australia and promotes Australia’s education sector internationally. He is based in Sydney.

Laurie has 25 years’ experience in international corporate, advisory and government roles that includes assignments in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei.

From 2005 to 2011, Laurie was Austrade’s Regional Director, North East Asia, with responsibility for teams in over 20 locations. In this role, he led the strengthening of Austrade’s presence across central and western China, developed new strategies to take advantage of opportunities arising from structural change in Japan, and established in-market support for Australian firms in the emerging market of Mongolia.

Laurie previously held a number of senior roles with News Corporation and its affiliates in Hong Kong and Beijing, including as Executive Vice President (China) of STAR TV in Hong Kong. He led China business development for multiple divisions of the company, overseeing a range of direct and portfolio investments in China.

As Executive Director of a Sydney-based Asian-markets strategy consultancy, Laurie worked on projects across India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and South Africa for a client base that spanned Australia, Europe, the USA and Asia.

Laurie’s early career was with the Department of Trade and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and Taipei.

Laurie has a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics, Statistics) from Melbourne University, and undertook post-graduate study at Peking University. He is fluent in Mandarin.

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Michael Bleby (Moderator)

Journalist, BRW Magazine

After studying Japanese at high school, Adelaide University and the ANU, Michael spent three years in Japan on the JET program. His career in journalism started with an internship at Reuters in Tokyo, leading to another internship with Bloomberg in London, which then turned into a four-year job.

Since then Michael has used bashing out stories on a keyboard as a way to spend a year in Damascus as a freelancer and 7.5 years in Johannesburg with Business Day, South Africa's main business daily. He has also written for the Financial Times, The Age, and the Sydney Morning Herald.

He returned to Australia in 2011 and currently works for BRW Magazine in Melbourne, covering professional services (architecture, engineering, and law), transport, gaming, and emerging markets.

When not trying to get his head around why Melbourne's weather is the way it is, he is fascinated to watch how much Australia's responses to China's growth mirror those towards Japan 25 years ago. He can be found tweeting at @MichaelBleby.

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